Add codes programmatically

Hi everyone,

Is it possible to add codes to the drawing document programmatically?

I mean the codes is embed into the drawing.

Thanks in advance.

 

Hi Stanley,

Do you mean program code?

If so, the answer is yes. You can insert VBA macros in the same way as you
do in Word Documents.

I would not advise you to do this, as most users would (quite rightly in my
opinion) by scared of an AutoCAD file containing macros unless they knew the
whole reasons for doing it and what the macros did.

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Regards,


Laurie Comerford
www.cadapps.com.au

 

Hi Laurie Comerford,

Thank you.

The reason I want to embed program code into the drawing document

is to display a warning message to users when opening the drawing that

had been categorize as an outdated document.

That means the code will only be inserted to outdated drawings

and I want the code be inserted by VBA program (Not manually inserted).

Will you show me an example of how to do it?

Thanks for help.

Regards.

Stanley.

 

Hi Stanley,

I still have no idea of what you really want to do.

I made a guess, but I can't even if I wanted to, give examples of of things
when I don't know what they are and how you want them to work.

What I would do, would be to delete the drawing and then no-one could have
difficulties with it being out of date.

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Regards,


Laurie Comerford
www.cadapps.com.au

 

Hi Laurie Comerford,

I can't delete the drawing. Every time I modify the drawing I have save as a
new drawing.

So there may be many old drawings, but I just need it as a trace back
purpose.

To avoid other people from opening a outdated drawing to work on it.

So I need to put program code in those outdated drawing, the program is just
to popup a warning

message.

I know AutoCad 2004 have a security option to password protect drawing
document.

But out company have both AutoCad 2002 & 2005, I must save drawings in
Acad2000 format.

Regards.

 

I found this quite intersting and looked into it a bit.
Using VBAMAN, I create a new project bound vba.
In the code, I create a module which I called Sub Startup for no other
reason than it seemed like a good module name.
In that module I placed 1 lineBack in vbaman I embedded the code into the drawing.
Now all it needs is the ability to auto run on drawing startup.
Who knows how to do that?
I like the idea of this and see other uses for this tagging of my own
drawings.
Mind you, as Laurie says, most of us hate receiving drawings with embedded
macros and are loathe to allow them to run.

Jon

 

Hi,

Why do anything so complex?

Make yourself a block containing information like:

"This drawing was superseded by drawing xxxx on xxxx date"

Insert the block and zoom to extents of the block and save the drawing.

Or even easier - save the drawing inclusive of a date value in the file
name.

eg MyProject Drawing.dwg
Save it as:
MyProjectDrawing20050127.dwg
Save again as MyProjectDrawing and continue to work with it.

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Regards,


Laurie Comerford
www.cadapps.com.au

 

Have you ever looked into document management software?

 

Why not just put the old drawings in a network location that only YOU have
access to??
Sounds like you're trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill to me.

 

Sounds like you're trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill to me
I have perfected this method...;0)

 

Hi everyone,

I know it seems to make things complicated.

But I've to share drawings with others, I can't put it into

a location only accessible by me.

To put a text "This drawing was superseded by drawing xxxx on xxxx date"

on drawing is not a good method. Because other people can erase the text
then

save the drawing again. That kind of things always happen in my firm.

Now I've written a program to do following things:

When the drawing opened, It pops up an InputBox let user enter
password. If the password matched the drawing can be viewed &
editable. On cancel or password mismatch all the content will be
turned into invisible state.

The above program works fine. I just want this module be inserted into

drawing by a host program.

 

Because other people can erase the text then save the drawing again. That
kind of things always happen in my firm.

That's why you need a document management system. Its a lot of work to write
your own although it could be done. With a dms, the files are stored in a
secure area and requires users (whom you've given permission do do so) to
check them out before editing. Checking in creates a new revision, not
overwriting the previous one. Any method you use in vba can be worked
around, just like erasing a piece of text.

 

However, should you still decide to do it yourself, the security in vba
doesn't allow you to programatically embed or extract code from a dwg. You
can only do that with the VBAMAN command. What I would try is storing info
as xdata in the dwg and then modifying the Open cmd with your code to check
the dwg for version info. But as I said, this can be worked around by using
the default command. You could also use events to watch for a dwg to open.